5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

March 20, 2018

With a line stretching the length of the community center, and a silent auction that filled the fire hall, approximately 500 people turned out to the Rob and Tammy Trosdahl spaghetti fundraiser on Saturday evening in Henning. The fundraiser was hosted by the Henning Fire Department with proceeds benefitting the Trosdahl family of rural Henning. The family had premature twins just after the first of the year. One of the twins passed away just two days later, while another remains in the NICU in St. Cloud, Minn.

Organizers are putting on the final touches for Henning’s second annual National Down Syndrome Day. Both the national and local Down Syndrome day will be held on March 21. The day was chosen since the most common form of Down Syndrome is Trisomy 21.

Henning Township recognized retiring clerk Dean Bolland for his 42 years of service on the town board following the township election and annual meeting on Tuesday night.

A vacant building on Main Street in Ottertail will be getting a new chance at life. During its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday night, the Ottertail City Council heard from Marv and Cheryl Andersen regarding the former Hoot ’N Holler bar/restaurant on Main Street in Ottertail. Marv Andersen, who has owned Oakwood Supper Club in rural Henning on two previous occasions, said they are excited to be back in the area.

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

March 25, 1998

After years of sitting idle, the Henning locker plant appears poised for new life. New owners Cleyon and Sharon Anderson of rural Henning report they will make repairs and improvements in preparation for the estate inspector by mid-April. After that, they plan to be open and processing area livestock.

Minnesota’s Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning talked with school board member Jack Nelson, Superintendent Bruce Montplaisir, and school aide Ginny Wallevand while on his visit through Henning School.

The Henning Fire Department was called upon to fight two fires early this week, Fire Chief John Thalmann reported. McCollough Welding in Henning was the site of the first call, which came in between 10:30 and 11 p.m. on Monday, March 23.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

March 20, 1973

The old St. Edward’s Church in Henning, abandoned since last spring, is being dismantled board by board, for salvage. The steeple was the toughest job so far when it finally broke loose it toppled top first and buried the point several feet into the ground.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

March 20, 1948

A total of 675 people attended the Creamery dinner. The annual report was read and it was disclosed that the total number of pounds of butterfat received was 410,442.8.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

March 22, 1923

E. W. Tiller, clerk of the Battle Lake schools, makes some valuable recommendations to the school board, after attending the state school officers meeting in St. Paul: “Our tax rate this year is a total of 93 mills, 56 of which is school tax. Practically all the taxpayers are demanding retrenchment. Therefore, as a result of my trip to the convention, I recommend the following: (1) election of teachers not earlier than April preferably May; (2) lowering all salaries; (3) elimination of one high school teacher and suspension of commercial course, less subjects taught and teachers teaching more periods; (4) making a budget and adhering to it; (5) having a committee to buy supplies and equipment, working under the budget; (6) writing to our senator and representatives that we demand that the legislature make up by appropriating the 26 percent deficit in state aid and that there be no change in the state aid of $7.00 for non resident pupils.”

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

March 24, 1898

Minnesota people use 60,000 tons of sugar every year. We are a sweet lot of people.

Luetgert will not be lonesome for something to do at the Illinois state prison. The authorities appreciated his skill at making sausages. Time ought to pass quickly at this, his favorite occupation.

A strange comet, which is circulated as a war omen, has just been discovered by the Lick observatory at San Fransico. The comet is said to be only 100,000,000 miles away, but is plainly seen by the naked eye.

Nothing new can be given in regard to the trouble between the United States and Spain, but it is apparent that a crisis is at hand. The Spanish populace at Havana are spoiling for a fight and the Americans there are preparing to leave.

There is a new song going the rounds of the papers and it runneth this wise: “We don’t want to buy at your place, we don’t want to trade there any more; you’ll be sorry when you see us going to some other store. You can’t sell us any stale goods, we have opened wide our eyes; we don’t want to trade at your store ‘cause you do not advertise.”

We live in a land of high mountains and high taxes, low valleys and low wages, big crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen, big lakes, big drunks, big pumpkins, big men with big pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountains and pious politicians who gamble in the night, roaring cataracts and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses, fast young men, sharp lawyers, sharp financiers and sharp toe shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water and thousands of newspapers that lie like thunder-Ex.